Senior Lecturer

Research

My research is in the general area of reasoning under uncertainty. In particular, I work on planning and decision making, autonomy in robotics, and fault diagnosis. More detail about my research interests can be found here.

I am the P.I. for the NERC-funded AFDA project on fault diagnosis for autonomous underwater vehicles. I am also a P.I. on two EU FP&-funded projects, CogX, which is concerned with building intelligent robots as office assistants, and GeRT, which involves learning planning operators from hand-built robot programs. I am also involved with two EPSRC Bridging the Gap programme-funded projects, one on modelling structure in different kinds of glass, and one on tracking multiple radioactive particles using Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT).

DX 2012: 23rd International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis

I am the programme chair for DX 2012. The workshop website can be found here.

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Intelligent Robotics Lab

I also co-lead the Intelligent Robotics Lab along with Dr. Jeremy Wyatt. The lab currently consists of four faculty, six research fellows, and around ten Ph.D. students.

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Other Stuff

When I'm not working, I get up to some of these things.

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Contact details

School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham, B15 2TT
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)121 414 6687
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 4281
Email: R.W.Dearden@cs.bham.ac.uk